Am Mittwoch 19 Dezember 2007 10:27:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:56:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > the only thing i can think of that might affect this is vmware or vnc. > > i'm using both a lot at the moment, so perhaps something to do with the > > keyboard grabbing is affecting x -question mark- however closing both > > vnc and vmware don't fix it... > > I've had this happen from time to time, and always when using VMware (I > rarely use VNC). As with you, quitting VMware doesn't help, only logging > out and back in. > > I've no idea if the desktop is relevant, I'm using KDE.
I have this too when using vmware and it seems that somehow just the keymap screws up. I run kcontrol, activate the keyboard layout switcher (with 2 languages in it) and once it's activated I can deactivate it again (or switch the language back and forth). Then it works again. Sascha
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